The US Air Force issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to 16 companies for the development of Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM), a new aircraft-launched weapon specifically intended to support Ukrainian defense requirements.

The US Air Force issued an RFP to develop a new aircraft-launched weapon called Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM) intended for Ukrainian defense requirements

The U.S. is developing a new long-range and relatively affordable missile specifically for Ukraine's Air Force with a range of around 460 kilometers

The RFI update expressly stated the intended recipient would be Kyiv

The weapon will be a 500-pound (225 kilogram)-class munition with a fragmentation warhead capable of destroying armored targets

Hit accuracy of 10 meters of a target and the ability to operate GPS effectively even when the enemy engages electronic counter-measures

Manufacture of the weapon is intended to begin no later than two years after the awarding of the contract and up to 1,000 are to be produced each year